Incubator



A. WIGK'EY. INGUBATOR.

(No M odl.)

:Na-530,567; Patented Decyll v UNITED-j ANDREW' Wiener? "on A enrolled; 1'LLiNo1s; f

snor-Frenzen forming pars of Letters Patent saigner; dated beceinber 141; Lie-ee.; 1 Applications@ sepiembe14'.1es2. sensi naelgasziesmas-J To au whom itfmay con/cern.'4 y

Be it known that 'I5 ANDREW Wrcxmgja citizen of rthe United States, residing at Chi-V cago, in the county of ,Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Incubatore, of which the followingis a specification. l

My invention relates particularly to the nests upon which the eggs are placed for hatching. When eggsarehatched artificially, it is necessary to 'provide means for turning them, and great diiculty has been encountered in finding means such as to fully guard against unduly exposing the eggs to change of teinperature. 1 Myinvention completelylobviates the dif- .f culty, In providing means whereby `the eggs m'ay be gently turned to any desired eent wthqutsubjecting them to even the, possi-v bilityofchange of temperature.

To illustrate the invention, I have chosen a simple form of incubator and have shown the i same in vertical sction in Figure 1 and the egg tray thereof-` in perspective in Fig. 2, of the accompanying drawings. A'

In the AdrawingaA is the incubatorbox; B, a suitable heating device, and C the nest upon, which the eggs lie. The nest is shown as com# posed of side hars c, cross rods c', and i end e' rou-ers c2, the' inner proviedwnh handles a.'

uponthe endrollers and extended'between 4 them over the 'crossbars with sucentslaek to sag, between-sadhars, and form'l'ttle hohu as may seem necessary, by mere rotation of ,4o s

the end rollers; for Isince the eggs rest wholly upon the apron and touch -nothing else, they turn with the utmost certainty to a degree l corresponding `with the distance through which the underlying apron travels from side to side. l v

' What I claim is#n Anest comprising a frame, a series of cross bars, rollers at the opposite sides of the frame, 1 and a. flexible lapron wound upon the rollers g' 50 e and extending betweemthe same over' the crosshars with enough slack to sag between the wrs sufficiently to prevent the eggs from rolling over the bars when the lapron is moved along. l Y

f ANDREW WICK'EY. Witnesses:

CHAnLEsO. SHERVEY,

YL BITNER.

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